Government/Military

At a recent special event held by the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, a panel of former and current CIA employees answered questions about Area 51 and the discussion included talk about UFOs. However, their answers left some, including local media, doubting.

Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta tweeted his approval of a recent interview with Clinton by Lena Dunham, and in the tweet he encouraged Dunham to ask Clinton about aliens next time.

Since the release of a report analyzing a UFO video allegedly captured by a Customs and Board Patrol (CBP) aircraft using a thermal imaging camera, online UFO researchers have shared a lot of opinions. Several have come up with alternate theories. However, the few experts that have shared an opinion support the findings in the report.

A former serviceman stationed at Minot Air Force Base, Minot, North Dakota, recalled watching a silent, pyramid-shaped UFO crossing the base with multiple witnesses, according to testimony in Case 69775 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Glenn Campbell, a former Area 51 researcher, decided to visit the base for old time's sake, which ended up with him playing a little cat and mouse game with the Area 51 security guards, often referred to as "Cammo Dudes."

A group of UFO researchers with backgrounds in science have come together to analyze an alleged UFO video they have confirmed comes from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The object in the video was captured by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, and according to the researchers, it exhibits characteristics that cannot be explained by any known aircraft or natural phenomenon.

UK newspapers claim that recently declassified files document Scotland Yard's monitoring of UFO activists and Sci-Fi enthusiasts. The files are regarding the activities of the UK's Metropolitan Police Special Branch, a department responsible for national security.

A documentary on the alleged true story of a man who believes he gained inside knowledge about a top secret antigravity spaceship has recently been released, despite the death of the movie's creator in 2013. The filmmaker's estate released the video on Vimeo earlier this month.

A Welsh Assembly Minister (AM) recently asked the Welsh government three questions about UFO sightings and how the Welsh government handles them. The Welsh government replied in the make-believe Star Trek language of Klingon.

American intelligence officer E. Howard Hunt, well known for his “plumbers” role in the Nixon White House, revealed “that President John F. Kennedy was killed for his attempts to expose the reality of the alien presence and share it with our Russian Cold War adversaries,” according to Watergate lawyer and author Douglas Caddy.

The Indiana witness near Clinton who recently recalled a UFO incident from 1994 when a slow moving, triangle-shaped UFO moved low over a government installation while he was conducting security work, has named the Newport Chemical Depot as the site during an interview with Indiana MUFON Field Investigator Ned Delaney, in Case 66660 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Bob Lazar is the alleged UFO whistleblower whose claims of working on back engineering alien spacecraft at Area 51 have made the secretive base famous...in a recent interview a documentary filmmaker shared statements he was given by a physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratories in which he claims to have met Lazar at Los Alamos and can confirm he was employed as a physicist.

After years of law suits, the Federal Administrative Supreme court of Germany forces the administration of the German Parliament – the Bundestag – to release and give public access to a report on "UFOs, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and Germany's implementation UN-Resolution A/33/426″ (that asked its member states to conduct official research into UFOs) compiled by the parliamentary "Scientifical Service.“

Official confirmation that extraterrestrial life exists is hard to come by – but NASA's administrator has gone public saying he believes life outside of Earth will be found some day. And the media platform was a group of British school children.

Adding to the list of elected officials who have seen or reported a UFO is Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre. As a 15-year-old student interested in pursuing astronomy, the young Mr. Coderre told a science fair interviewer about his own personal UFO encounter. The interview now resides on YouTube.

UFO videos were released this week from the Chilean government. The videos were captured at the Academia de Guerra Aérea (AGA), or Air Force War Academy, in Santiago, Chile in 2012. After years of careful analysis, a scientific board has declared the UFO event an "anomalous luminous phenomenon" of unknown origin.

News magazine Mother Jones asked for Hilary Clinton's stance on UFO disclosure to include in a story about why UFO activists are excited about her possible presidency. Her office seemed reticent to respond with anything substantive, but they did respond, and, among other things, their statement claims: "The Truth is Out There."

Japan’s defense minister recently announced that UFOs from space have never entered the country’s airspace. On Wednesday, April 1, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani fielded questions about threats from space. The Japan Times reports that these questions came from “flamboyant wrestler-turned-lawmaker ...

A witness to the UK's most famous UFO encounter was able to get the UK government to admit they had not released all of their UFO files as they had previously claimed. In December, 2013, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, they said they had found 18 UFO files they would send to the UK National Archives for public release, but that has not happened yet, and a member of the UK House of Lords wants to know why.